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  1. Re:Where does the money go? on FCC Seeks Tech Donations for Katrina Aid · · Score: 1

    Lets the private sector help people? What sort of drugs are you taking exactly.

  2. Please on FCC Seeks Tech Donations for Katrina Aid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    waterproof linux distos only.

  3. Re:Grant theft Auto on Mazda Switches To USB Keys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As opposed to some kid with a screwdriver.

  4. Phoenix Mars Lander Hits Halfway Point on Phoenix Mars Lander Hits Halfway Point · · Score: 3, Funny

    and quits NASA after deciding the idea of being strapped to a load of explosives and blasted off into the freezing vacuum of space to a god forsaken planet has little or no appeal. In other news the NASA AI team are flogged and then fired.

  5. Whats good for the goose on Legal Arguments Can Hurt Tech Job Mobility · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Intresting that MS decide that inevitable disclosure is a problem when their employees leave given that it wasnt an issue when they poached/bribed a lot of the guys from Borland in the .NET ramp up.

  6. Re:Only 4? on Technology Behind Plasma Displays · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've actually doubled the number of states of matter in the past half century.

    Yes but apathy is still the one true state of matter.

  7. In other news on Sri Lanka Declares an Open Source Week · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot announces a gramer/spelink wek

  8. Re:How do you know Google is telling the truth? on Has Google Peaked? · · Score: 1

    because msn search said it was highly relevant

  9. Yes on Has Google Peaked? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Next question the does not involve endless futile /. speculation please.

  10. Re:i like how the gimp works. on Usability Eye for The GIMP Guy · · Score: 1

    I used to think the usability of the GIMP was bad, turns out its just bad compared to what the rest of the world is used to.

  11. Re:Photo from inside the facility: on Sun Grid Utility Goes Live for Employees · · Score: 1

    Guano Jim is about to become Guantanamo Jim because we all know only terrorists break NDA's

  12. Decision still to be made on name on Sun Grid Utility Goes Live for Employees · · Score: 1

    But CloudNet, AirNet and UpperAtmosphereNet are currently leading contenders. Analysts feel however it may be something in a similar vein which is finally chosen.

  13. Re:Why? on Ars Technica on Zeta 1.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do open source advocates ask this question? Do you have a problem with people having a broader choice?

  14. When they say RFID tags in Law Enforcement on RFID Tags in Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    What they really mean is they plan to put RFID tags in donuts to help determine just how many coffee breaks cops take.

  15. Tedious cleanup? on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sounds like a job for Mrs FooAtWFU

  16. Re:What do you want? on Oracle's Chief Security Officer Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    I'd say YOU lack sufficient "intelligence" to post on my posts since you obviously didn't actually understand what the word preclude means or what I was questioning the OP about.

  17. Re:It amazes me.... on Oracle's Chief Security Officer Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    And how exactly do these qualifications and experience preclude her from being a top class manager leading a team of security experts?

  18. Screw the hardware on Cheap Tapeless DV Capture? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Train yourself to develop a photographic memory.

  19. Dont do it on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 2, Funny

    The English have been implanting chips in themselves for years and all it has done is made them fatter and depleted the oceans reserves of cod.

  20. Re:British Society Tracking Database on Can a Customer Loyalty Database Change a Society? · · Score: 1

    Here we like to call the remembering databases becase they remember the information we put in them.

  21. Re:Windows programming is purposely vague.. on Visual Studio Hacks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only on /. would someone be dumb enough to cite sourceforge as a good example of a fully integrated help/documentation/examples/technical discussion/articles/books/advise system. Sourceforge is many things but if you look at 95% of the projects on it they have nothing whatsoever to do with quality code or documentation.

  22. Re:Windows programming is purposely vague.. on Visual Studio Hacks · · Score: 5, Informative

    Four letters. MSDN. Now show me something comparable in the OS world.

  23. Re:I guess UK really *is* America's largest... on UK Record Companies Suing File Sharers · · Score: 1

    Iraq obviously.

  24. It looks like you are trying to resolve a crisis on Software Agents Can Help Time-Stressed Teams · · Score: 1

    Would you like me to
    (a) Tell you not to panic and make soothing sounds?
    (b) Sound disturbing alarm klaxon noises and make with the flashing lights?
    (c) Stop announcing the imminient destruction countdown at 10 so its a bit of a surprise?
    (d) Place an online order for incontinence pants in case you have another little fear induced accident?
    (e) Fuck you!, its every machine for itself, I'm out of here.

  25. Fortunately none of those drained post on /. on Google and Yahoo Creating Brain Drain? · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the standards won't drop around here.